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Volume 74. Number 33. Marshall, N. C. September II. 1975 15 CENTS PER COPY It was a comforting feeling here Monday afternoon when two 5,000-gallon tankers from the North Carolina National Guard roared through Mar shall and headed toward the reservoir near the former Mato shed. Operators of the trucks and Guardsmen who accompanied the trucks here sounded their sirens to alert local citizens that water had arrived. Sighs 4 THE IMMENSE SIZEof the reservoir, as shown above, will require round-the-clock trips of the National Guard trucks to put the water level back to normal. 36 4 , -' 1 r ''. ' . FT" V MEMBERS OF THE FRENCH BROAD EMC are also assisting in the operation. Pictured above looking at the water being released into the reservoir are Randy Roberts (standing) and Howell Cody (sitting.) It can be noted that the million-gallon reservoir la dangerouly low or water due to having to abandon the storage lake on Hunter Creek, the lowering of the lake by a foot a day, and the extended dry spell, despite needed rains over the weekend. ... I r i : i; TWO NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL CLAUD water supply trucks, each bc':".- S.cja gallons, started pouring thoasar,:"i f gallons of water Into the y.-r reservoir ?!iday sfitrnoon. It is a round -the-clock eperalion with :.' " s rf it V. "c," '-".i from the As.v.e;::t water fyslm. i t-.own s?.ove el" 1 t i ? " - tret ' s. A w ?' -r fa? f 1 r f" I.mr.ir, ! racr. iters 'i'- - tc . -r. sre s- - i.i f; ; t : f r fron tue trucls pp " I I t " i j t '. e r r r v ' r . EQaupsDiiffllin IFsaees WsatteD SDnaDiPtoge of relief were echoed by everyone. Many persons, including newspapermen and television personnel, flocked to the reservoir to watch the operations. When the two trucks had emptied their tanks, they headed back to Woodfin to reload and return. This continued throughout the afternoon and night and is continuing as deadline ap -v. '.XHHV I -7" Ti J 2i proaches for this issue. Sgt. Carpenter told The News-Record that the Guardsmen would render this service as long as necessary. The immediate danger of limiting the use of water has been alleviated at the present but local citizens are urged to conserve every drop of water possible. James Iedford, chairman of the Madison County board of A." commissioners, said the National Guard efforts helped to raise the water level in the reservoir more than a foot "and brought the situation a little above the danger point." This water, combined with that which Marshall is pulling off the headwaters of Hunter's Creek and that produced by two 500-foot wells drilled over the weekend, may give the town enough water to meet its needs. A third well located by Cecil Blackwell of Walnut with a divining rod Monday, was expected to be in operation Tuesday, Ledford said. He said the divining rod man was called in to attempt to find a larger underground source than the 10,000 to 12,000 The following report of the activities, income, expenses and other related data has been submitted to the Town of Marshall by C. N. Willis, Executive Director, Marshall Housing Authority: August 14, 1975 Honorable Lorado Ponder Mayor of the Town of Mar shall Marshall, North Carolina Re: Marshall Authority Housing Dear Mr. Ponder: We would like to make our first report to the Town of Marshall of the activities of the Marshall Housing Authority from its beginning through March 31, 1975. This report covers information of interest to all concerned. Enclosed is the first payment to the Town of Marshall in lieu of taxes for the Fiscal Year ending March 31, 1975. The first payment is in the amount of $566.52. This may be smaller than expected due to the high cost of elec tricity. This is the reason for the smaller check. OCCUPANCY FACTS: The Marshall Housing Authority owns and operates 50 dwelling units located at four different sites. The unit sizes are as follows: 1 BR 2 BR 3Br 4 Br 20 14 12 4 (16 for elderly) The size of the family and age of the children determines the number of bedrooms that a family requires, but since we have had so few applications, we have not followed this requirement to the letter. We have done this to avoid having vacancies. Our Occupancy Standards also require us to move tenants from one dwelling unit to another when there is a change in family composition. We still have not reached a 100 percent oc cupancy. The average monthly rent for all tenants for occupancy during the month of March " the and of this reporting period was $56.0t. The rent includes electricity and water used by each tenant A charge - of the going rate to us la charged each tenant for ea- ceaatvc electricity used over ' their allowance, s ' ,: ' AB 11 antts for the elderly are occupied and all seem U . ' be satisfied with their apart meat and the service they are receiving. All the families and aO the ether tenants hi the other abed apartments seem to be satisfied. , 80CRCB OF INCOME Of TENANTS: : ' At . this time,' tenants residing m the project, have the following verified sources of income: Social Security and Social Security Benefita - II Grnis frwii t'e Ipt of Sociil Service I gallons the other two wells were providing per day "The way that stick was acting," 1-edford said, "he convinced me he knew what he was talking about." The National Guard tankers rolled into Asheville Monday morning and immediately began hauling loads of water from a large line at the Metropolitan Sewerage Disposal plant at Woodfin, pouring the water into a million-gallon reservoir across the highway from the new Madison High School above Marshall. The level of the 16-foot-deep reservoir was down to six feet, four inches Monday mornuig, Iedford said, but had risen to above seven feet by the end of Marshall Housing Authority Report Made To Town Veteran's Pension - 1 Working in Factories and Other Occupations - 19 The total population of the project is 162 people of all ages. The way rent is calculated for the elderly or a person on fixed income: they get a 10 percent discount and their rent is 25 percent of the remainder. A family on earned income: iey get a 5 percent discount and a $300 discount for each dependent and sometimes given some off for unusual hardships and rent is figured on a 25 percent of the remainder. In figuring 25 percent of a person's income - it is based on the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's definition of income as set forth in the admission policies of the Marshall Housing Authority. We have no minimum set rent We have a maximum set rent of $125 a month. PAYMENT IN LIEU OF TAXES: Although the Authority is tax exempt by law, it sets aside 10 percent of the total rent paid to the Authority, less the actual cost of elec tricity furnished and paid for by the Authority. From the beginning until March 31, 1975, we took in rent - $23,103.31, Excess Utilities -$432.94. This is a total of $23,537.25. Total cost of electricity for the same period Election Set For Nov. 4 Mrs. Pauline R. Ditmore, chairman Marshall Municipal board of elections, has an nounced that an election is to be held on Tuesday, November 4, 197S, the date established by law, for the purpose of electing a Mayor and three aldermen. The polling place will be at the Marshall Fire Station and the polls will be open on election day from 1:30 am. to 7:30 pjn. Mrs. Ditmore announces in 'a -legal notice published elsewhere in this issue that the filing period for candidates will be from 11:00 noon, Oc tober J, 1I7S, excluding. Saturdays and Sundays. The Madison County Board -of Elections Office will accept the Notices of Candidacy. The registration books win be opea from 1:30 ajn. to 1:39 p.m. every Monday, VTe -esday and Friday at the f's :.aoo County Board of -lions office, located on Ma n i reet, Marshall. The rep '.! w ''c for the sai 1 t "Jo swan be or V ?, C ' 1 1, r s.c' -:::( . the day. The hauling operation will continue around the clock "for as long as necessary," led ford said. The trucks, from the 540th Transportation Battalion of the National Guard, based in lnoir, were making a run every two hours, supplying 120,000 of the 200,000 gallons of water that Marshall requires each day The wells and the creek, I-edford said, are expected to supply another 100,000 gallons a day, especially now that the dry season appeared to have ended with weekend rains. W.J. Perrigo of Asheville, area coordinator for the North Carolina Division of Civil was $17,871.09. This leaves a sheltered rent charge of $5,665.16 which would make payment to the town of Marshall - $566.52. STATE OF INCOME AND EXPENSES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING MARCH 31, 1975: INCOME: Bill Clark Has Position With Carolina Federal In Asheville Bill N Clark, Route 2, Mars Hill, recently graduated from the Graduate School of Savings and Ixan at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. August 21, 1975. Clark is Vice President and Secretary at Carolina Federal Savings and I .can Association of Asheville. The school, conducted by the Institute of Financial Education in cooperation with Indiana University, is a two - week intensive education for per sons in managerial and supervisory positions in savings and loan association. Students attend three years to complete requirements. Clark is one of 65 students who successfully completed the first and second years of the school and wrote a thesis on a savings and loan problem between the second and third years. Clark wrote his thesis on "An Effective Program of Employee Recruitment, Training, and Retention for Carolina Federal." Subjects taught during the three years of the school in clude: Principles of Management, Marketing Management, Management Information Systems, Fianancial Institutions, Marshall Precinct Divided Into Two Precincts North And South The Madison County Board of Elections voted Tuesday of last week to create a new , voting precinct by a dhriska of the Marshall Precinct la Township Ne. 1. . - The action by the board was token ever the objection of Edward T. r Gentry, Democratic member of the elections board. - The Township Ne.: t precincta will be known as South Marshall and North Marshall prciri. with the French Broad F'vcr as the divj ' - 7 p. ' tn J l. -;: 1. .it :..r Preparedness, and Jerry VeHaun, director of the Buncombe County Office of Civil Preparedness, kept close eyes on the coordinated efforts Monday. "If the drain is too great on Woodfin's water supply," VeHaun said, "Asheville has agreed to furnish water, either directly to Marshall or into the Woodfin system where it would be taken out for Marshall's use." ledford said the Woodfin source was accepted by Marshall rather than water from Mars Hill because of construction of a new highway between Marshall and Mars Hill. "It's easier for the trucks to roll down the river from Woodfin," he said, "because Dwelling Rent Excell Utilities Income from In vestments (Xher Income Total Operating In come $23,103.35 432.94 475.22 877.41 $24,888.87 OPERATING EXPENSES: Administrative Salaries $4,38000 Other Administrative Economic Issues, Housing Patterns Here and Abroad, Society and the Law, Current Savings and Loan Economic Trends, The Social Manager, Executive Compensation and Benefits, Business Policy in Savings and Loan Association, Educational Opportunities for Savings and Loan Personnel, Business and Society, Man and His Environment and American Politics. Clark, who is head of the Loan Department of Carolina Federal, has been a staff member of the Association since February of 1960. He attended the public schools in Madison and Buncombe counties and of the board. ... Morgan said creation of the new precinct was supported by him and Perry Willis, the board chairman and . a : Republican. V There Is a total of S,lll registered voters in the original Marshall precinct There will be some 8 0 or ? 0 In the new South Marshall . Precinct, with the Marsh a3 riprwntary School on the h' -i as te p'" - r'v; , and a' t U'D or I,. in . Nor'.h ? '1 r" "' t ! the ri-w t 1 S" 1 . f. tt f " v fir . - by H 'i i (X there are so many detours and holes in the road between Marshall and Mars Hill." Perrigo said two portable filtration units have been located in Richmond, Va., and could be brought in if necessary to filter the water from the lake behind the Hunter Creek dam This water was declared to be con taminated by the North Carolina Department of Health after the North Carolina Department of Natural and Economic Resources ordered the lowering of the lake's water level in July The National Guard assistance was ordered by Cov. James Holshouser. Expenses 1,497.71 Utilities (Water and Electricity I 14,602.68 Ordinary Maintenance & Labor 4,375.74 Other General Ex pense 3,011.12 Total Expenses $27 ,867 .25 Non-routine Maintenance 487.50 Total expensers $28,354.75 graduated from Sand Hill High .School in 1953. He at tended Asheville - Biltmore Junior College two years and Western Carolina University where he received a Batchelor of Science Degree in Business Administration in 1958. He has served as President and In structor of the Asheville Chapter of The Institute of Financial Education, President of the Asheville Chapter of The American Business Club, and is Preliminary Plans Made For Marshall Christmas Pageant Planning for the 1973 Marshall Christmas Pageant was begun by a committee appointed by the Marshall Bicentennial Committee last Tuesday, Sept. 2nd. The meeting, held at the French Broad EMC building, was chaired by Mr. John Corbett. Dates set for the performance are: December 19 and 20, with the dress rehearsal to be tenaUvdy held Dec. It The strengths and weaknesses of last year's pageant were reviewed and suggestions made by anonymous ob servers were discussed. The following committees were named: Props and Set: Francis Plssuto, Earl Wise, Richard Wilds - ' Script: Jerry Plemmons, Spencer LeGraad, Deaa ' Shields, Jobie Sprinkle,' Madeira Betts Cast: Rick Tbomason, Vader Shelton, , Patricia r F i" an x- w - rv: r-.- i r Fifteen guardsmen ac companied the tankers and support vehicles. Ledford said he has requested $25,000 in assistance from the governor for the drilling of the wells, and had "put in" for $250,000 of federal Title 10 money for repairing the dam. Schools in Marshall, which had been closed Friday because of the water shortage, were in operation this week with no reported in convenience to the students. Roy Wild, alderman and water commissioner of Marshall, stated that he wishes to thank everyone who has helped conserve water during this critical time. This leaves a deficit of $3,465.88. We have been subsidized by the government for $8,484.00. We have- no in vestments at thia time. This report made by: C. N. Willis Executive Director Marshall Housing Authority currently a member of The Board of Trustees of Eliada Home, Inc. Clark is the first staff member of a Western North Carolina Savings and Loan Association to complete the Graduate School of Savings and Loan. Clark resides with his wife, Bea, and sons, Chuck, and Tim, on Walker Branch Road in the "Greater Ivy Com munity" of Madison County near Mars Hill. CaldweU Light: Roy Wild, Ive Bradley Costumes: Hattie Teagna, Orla Ponder, Edith Hainptoa, Helen Edwards Music: Charles Huey, Lillian Corbett Hospitality; ' Jenny Cody, Joyce Pksmmona, Dome RJoe Animals: Marjorie Payne . McDevitt Publicity t Mattee Mask- . bum, Unda Maabbara Traffic Control; Fire Dept. v' and Police Dept - . A special thanks was voiced . at the meeting to Dwjui Shields V , Jerry Plenanona, inembers of the Merchantt Asaoc and others, for their past interest and preserveraace ' la . promoting the Marshall Oaistmaa Pageant la . past ' , The next meeting at the full committee will be Tuesday, Oct Tat 7:30 p-m.